Much of the jazz world doesn't quite know what to make of Marco Benevento.

NPR: Marco Benevento: Jazz Not Jazz

By that time, Benevento had amassed a small army of keyboards, circuit-bending toys and piano effects.

NPR: Marco Benevento: Jazz Not Jazz

"You Know I'm No Good" is the only cut Benevento didn't write on his new album Between the Needles and Nightfall.

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And they close with an original, "Mephisto, " a song Benevento wrote while a member of The Jazz Farmers, his first band in New York.

NPR: Marco Benevento: Jazz Not Jazz

Benevento and his trio cover Deerhoof's "Twin Killers, " a song he heard when guitarist Charlie Hunter introduced him to the album The Runners Four.

NPR: Marco Benevento: Jazz Not Jazz

In his emotional, gospelized jazz, Benevento pays tribute to his musical inspirations: Horace Silver, James Booker and Ray Charles among them.

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After more than a decade of jamming, improvising and experimenting with sound, Benevento has discovered his own way into music by combining the thrust of rock, the questing of jazz and the experimental ecstasy of jam.

NPR: Marco Benevento: Jazz Not Jazz